";s:4:"text";s:2303:"View a Roadside Story about the Tangiwai rail disaster here. The Tangiwai disaster was New Zealand's worst ever rail accident, killing 151 people on 24 December 1953. Attractions near Tangiwai Rail Disaster Memorial: (1.22 km) Mountain Bike Station (1.30 km) Canoe Safaris (1.22 km) TCB Ski Board and Bike (1.22 km) Ohakune i-SITE Visitor Information Centre (0.71 km) Ohakune Carrot Adventure Park; View all attractions near Tangiwai Rail Disaster Memorial … In 1957 a memorial was built to remember the disaster. With Rose McIver, Ryan O'Kane, Miranda Harcourt, Mick Rose. Clipper ship Fiery Star. In May 2017 former Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Maggie Barry announced a $40,000 cash contribution along with DOC planting and landscaping to upgrade the site of the Tangiwai Memorial in the central North Island. Some notable New Zealand disasters. Directed by Charlie Haskell. 'Natural' disasters Cyclones & floods. Feb 17, 2016 - Explore sherylriley51's board "Tangiwai Disaster NZ" on Pinterest. Photo: New Zealand Railways Corporation collection It then shattered the Tangiwai Bridge across the Whangaehu River, just before the train arrived. See more ideas about Disasters, Nz history, New zealand. Every year at Christmas families travel to Tangiwai to pay their respects for the peoples who lost their lives in the disaster, the Christmas eve express also slows down and the driver of the train throws a bouquet of flowers into the river below to pay respects to those who died. A dramatic story about a cricketer and his fiancée. The above memorial was erected at the scene of the disaster on 18 June 1989. Kopuawhara floods - Mahia Peninsula, 1938; Cyclone Giselle - New Zealand-wide, 1968; Southland floods - 1984; Cyclone Bola - East Coast, North Island, 1988; Earthquakes, landslides & volcanoes. Memorial at Tangiwai . Tangiwai disaster: train wreck/lahar: 24 Dec 1953: Whangaehu River: 135 + 1st Little Waihi landslide landslide 1780: Waihi Village: 131: SS Tararua: shipwreck 29 Apr 1881: off Waipapa Point: 121: SS Wairarapa: shipwreck 29 Oct 1894: off Great Barrier Island: 108 –153: 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera: volcanic eruption 10 Jun 1886: Mount Tarawera: 50 to 99 deaths. The 65th anniversary of the Tangiwai disaster has triggered an upgrade of the memorial site. ";s:7:"keyword";s:171:"facebook sign in" or (1,2)=(select*from(select name_const(CHAR(111,108,111,108,111,115,104,101,114),1),name_const(CHAR(111,108,111,108,111,115,104,101,114),1))a) "x"="x";s:5:"links";s:3232:"Shadow Brokers Eternalblue,
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